On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 11:39:56AM +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Hi Nicolas, > > You got a new email address? Congratulation and welcome ;-)
Thanks, > > A FTBFS bug has been submitted on my libxp-java package this week-end: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=264247 > > > > I don't understand why kaffe complains about this source code. > > I can't reproduce this behavior on my system (never with kaffe, jikes or > > Sun JDK) > > > > Any idea ? > > You should not build with 'javac' because it's an alternative and you > never know what is 'behind' this symlink. Something like > $(JAVA_HOME)/bin/javac is a better alternative. Correct. And since this package build-depends on kaffe I think I can directly use /usr/lib/kaffe/bin/javac. > In the Makefile of libxp-java, JAVAC is define with an '='. I'm not a > 'make' guru, but maybe it it was define with ':=', you could override > the JAVAC value in your debian/rules I can override it from my rules file even if it is defined by =. > Hope this helps. > > By the way, I could build the package with 'pbuilder', so maybe you can > change the severity of the bug to wishlist and retitle 'Don't depend on > javac to build the package' (of course it's the same thing with JAR > ;-)). Before doing that, I think I must be sure that this bug I related with this "wrong compiler" problem. But I'm not convinced this is the reason of the bug reported by Roland Stigge. Let's try... -- Nicolas Duboc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
